Do you experience issues with glare while driving or even looking at your digital screens? It is a common issue that everyone faces while engaging in such activities. With the passing time, people start facing various issues and some of them could be age-related, and some could be artificial as well which affects the eyes. What are the remedies to these situations? Let's understand the effects of reflection on people.
What is reflection?
Now when we are trying to understand the phenomenon in detail then let’s make it that way, reflection is when bright light falls on the smooth shiny surface, the light tends to hit the surface and bounces back causing reflection of light, the smooth surface can be a mirror or the eyeglasses you wear. Now we have to understand in detail how this affects our eye health.
Effect of reflection
So, this is common for people who wear glasses all the time. The reflection falls right on their glasses, making it difficult for the person to see. How does that work when a person is driving?
Driving during the daytime
Reflection can be caused by both natural and unnatural sources; there are no specifications. While driving during the daytime, the major source of light that causes reflection in sunlight. Yes, the bright burning star in the sky shines brighter than our futures, and that bright light falls right on our glasses, causing sharp reflection on the surface. It makes it quite difficult for us to see the road, even the forthcoming vehicles. Most people experience halos around the bright light as well.
Driving at night
The major source of light that causes reflection at night is artificial, while driving at night, the reflection is caused by the light coming from the headlights of the forthcoming vehicles or from the street lights. At night, these situations make it much more difficult to see the road than during the daytime, making it difficult to see and becoming a major source of accidents during the nighttime.
While working
The light from the digital screens such as mobile phones and laptops, falls right on the glasses, making it difficult to see. This sharp reflection also causes eye strain and fatigue, and one starts seeing halos around the bright lights. These sharp reflections also cause headaches as well, making it very complicated for the user.
Remedies to combat reflection
There a good number of people who consult the specialist regarding their eye care due to the effects caused by reflection, are usually recommended to use anti-reflective glasses. And what do these glasses do? Let's understand them in detail.
People switch to anti-reflective glasses or get their glasses reglazed with an anti-reflective coating. And how do they work? This anti-reflective covering helps in reducing the reflection by letting 100% of the light pass through the surface of the glasses, providing a zero opportunity for the light to bounce on the surface of the glasses. This passing of light makes it easier for the person to see clearly now than before as there is zero reflection or strong glasses that affect the vision while driving and also while working on the digital screens.
It also helps in increasing productivity at work as the negatives such as headaches and eye strain, and fatigue are completely eliminated with the help of these glasses.
So when you are aware of your eye care needs, it's your time to get the anti-reflective glasses today itself for a better driving experience everywhere.
Thin lenses for a seamless experience
You do not have too much of your brain to understand these glasses! These glasses are the same as the name suggests. Thin lenses are nothing but high index lenses that allow high prescription in comparatively thinner lenses. Now, what does this index mean? This index of the lens tells the amount of light it refracts. So say goodbye already to your big, fat, and high prescription glasses, and welcome this sleek and seamless experience to your life.
Why do you require high prescription glasses?
We require glasses when our eye lens system doesn't work properly, making your eyes unable to focus the image on the retina resulting in blurred vision. Now, depending on your prescription, your lens tends to refract the light. If the prescription is higher, then your lense requires more refraction hence, making the lens thicker whereas, a high index lens refracts more light, so for higher prescription lenses, less material is required.
Advantages of using thin lenses
Thin lenses are lighter and much more comfortable to wear.
Because of their sleek style and slimmer edges, they can be well glazed into a variety of frames, they don’t usually stick out of the frames.
Thin lenses have a more aesthetically pleasing look as other thick lense glasses provide a ‘bug-eye look’ or ‘fishbowl look’.
How is the thin lens different?
Generally, a thin lens has an index of 1.6 or 1.63, which is 20% thinner than the basic lense, and for ultra-thin lenses, its index is 1.67, which is 30% thinner than the basic lenses.